{"id":273114,"date":"2025-10-02T23:46:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T23:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/273114\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T23:46:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T23:46:10","slug":"nascar-insiders-suggest-kansas-in-conversation-for-best-nascar-track-in-next-gen-era","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/273114\/","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR insiders suggest Kansas in conversation for best NASCAR track in Next Gen era"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two NASCAR insiders were really impressed with what they saw from the Cup Series Playoff race at Kansas Speedway this past Sunday. On <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=oaKLy_3i0Co\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Teardown<\/a> podcast, Jordan Bainchi of Jeff Gluck of The Athletic suggested that Kansas has the best track in the Next Gen era. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis was a terrific race,\u201d Bianchi said. \u201cKansas again showed why it\u2019s easily top five of tracks for me. And I think a really good case could be made that it could be No. 1.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Gluck agreed with Bianchi, saying, \u201cYou\u2019re not going to get it perfect every time. We know this car has posed challenges at short tracks and road courses. At a lot of intermediate tracks, it\u2019s really great. But I think if you look at the mile and a half (tracks) as a whole, if you\u2019re just looking at the whole big picture of mile and a half racing in NASCAR, I think this is it. I think this is the best place for it. It just suits this car so well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chase Elliott talks about competing at the NASCAR Kansas track<\/p>\n<p>Gluck revealed he asked <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/pro\/news\/chase-elliott-steals-kansas-playoff-race-in-epic-finish-with-bubba-wallace-denny-hamlin\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kansas winner <strong>Chase Elliott<\/strong> <\/a>why the track produces great racing. \u201cIt\u2019s a really complicated answer that it would take me, I think, a very long time to explain how I would want to explain it,\u201d Elliott said during his post-race news conference. \u201cI think the best thing is just chalk it up is it\u2019s shaped really nicely. The entries are wide. You have a lot of options to run different lanes, and the surface is really smooth too, I think, to put it simply.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Elliott won the race after getting past <strong>Denny Hamlin<\/strong> and <strong>Bubba Wallace<\/strong> during the final lap of an overtime restart. He has now won two races this year and has clinched a spot in the NASCAR Playoffs Round of 8. <\/p>\n<p>Kansas Speedway opened in 2001, and NASCAR has held Cup Series races at the track since then. <strong>Jeff Gordon<\/strong> won the first Cup race at the track on Sept. 30, 2001, and won the second Cup race, which happened nearly a year later. Kansas Speedway has been hosting two Cup races a year since 2011. Earlier this season,<strong> Kyle Larson<\/strong> won the Kansas spring race. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two NASCAR insiders were really impressed with what they saw from the Cup Series Playoff race at Kansas&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":273115,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[1406,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-273114","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nascar","8":"tag-nascar","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115307242150977617","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}